Ian Abrey,ACA, Principal, Hillier Hopkins LLP
Bradley Albin, Bradley is the International Corporate Tax Director at US Tax & Financial Services Ltd. He is a licensed US tax attorney with over 10 years experience in Mergers and Acquisitions and US Corporate and International taxation, primarily spent in Big Four firms.
David Bailey, BA, FBIM, FinstD, MBCS
lectures extensively in the UK and overseas. As well as the programmes he presents for Quorum Training he is course director for the Institute of Directors, Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. After taking a degree in accountancy at Manchester University he worked for many years in the computer industry before becoming Director and Company Secretary of a group of engineering companies. Previous appointments include Chief Executive, The British Productivity Council, Visiting Professor, Queens University Belfast and Marketing Director, Oxford Business School.
Graham Batty is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with over ten years experience of advising social housing providers and other not-for profit organisations, both charitable and non charitable, on a wide range of corporate tax issues. Regular areas of advice include group structures, mutual/non trading status, conversion to charitable status, primary purpose trading issues, gift aid, tax efficient fundraising and general tax planning strategy. He is a member of the firm's Social Housing Steering Group and responsible for the coordination of direct tax services to the sector. He regularly writes and lectures on tax issues facing charities and not for profit organisations. Graham is currently a member of the technical committee of the Association of Taxation Technicians and a former member of its council.
Claire Beaumont has been with BDO Stoy Hayward for eight years and is an International Tax Manager in the firm's London office. She works alongside Allan Cinnamon on international tax matters and has previously worked with him on a range of very successful tax workshops.
Geoff Bedingfield is a tax and charities specialist at Baker Tilly.
Willem BonPartner (Tax), Loyens & Loeff
Kevin Bounds, MA, MBA, ACA, Briefcase Consulting Ltd
Lorna Brazell has been at Bird & Bird since 1994 and became a partner in the IP Department in May 2001.
Jo Brewer (BSc (Hons), ACA) has specialised in working with housing associations for 8 years since joining Smith & Williamson as a qualified accountant. She has attended the ICAEW's social housing sub-committee and has spoken at several seminars on accounting issues for registered social landlords. Jo currently manages a number of Smith & Williamson's housing association audits including the Guinness Trust Group, Maidstone Housing Trust and Salvation Army Housing Association. She is also responsible for the design and delivery of Smith & Williamson's social housing (RP) sector national training programme.
Robert Britton has been involved in the design and delivery of management development programmes since 1994, following a career in retail and commercial banking. Specialising in finance training, he has run courses and seminars throughout the UK, western Europe and the Middle East for organisations in the corporate, banking and not-for-profit sectors. Programmes have also been delivered on strategic alliances, commercial awareness and operations management. Between 1997 and 2001 he was responsible for finance training at Ashorne Hill Management College, near Leamington Spa.
Robert is a regular contributor to post-graduate programmes run by a number of leading UK academic institutions and an academic associate of the IFS School of Finance (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers), for which he has provided distance learning tuition and run revision workshops for banking students from many parts of the world. Subjects taught include corporate governance, measuring financial performance and financial markets & risk. In addition, he has written study guides on corporate financial management, management accounting and financial reporting.
Tim Buss Director, Tim Buss VAT Consultants Ltd.
Tim has been involved with VAT since 1973. He joined HM Customs & Excise (“Customs") in May 1973, shortly after the introduction of VAT in the UK. He worked as a visiting VAT inspector and as a classroom trainer.
Tim left Customs in 1989 and joined accountants PKF as a VAT Consultant responsible for all aspects of VAT. He was appointed director of VAT in 1998.
In October 2005, Tim left PKF to set up his own VAT consultancy and training company. In addition to presenting various training courses Tim is a consultant to a number of accountancy firms and other businesses. He has represented clients in a number of high profile VAT Tribunal cases.
Tim regularly writes and lectures on a range of VAT topics. In 2005 he wrote a book on VAT and Property Transactions. He was a Council member and for three years was director of education of the Institute of Indirect Taxation. Tim remains an associate of the Institute.
Lesley Carter has been a consultant, interim manager, coach and trainer for the past 11 years, working on a wide range of project-based and operational assignments. She has extensive procurement, service review and Best Value experience.
She has held a number of senior posts in local government, including Chief Office for Environment & Leisure for a London Borough Council. Lesley also directly managed Direct Services Organisations for 9 years, covering building cleaning, ground maintenance, refuse collection and street cleaning.
Lesley is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Management and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management.
Lesley is an Associate at the housing sector consultancy Campbell Tickell.
Professor Andrew Chambers Twice mentioned in House of Lords' debates as an authority on corporate governance and internal auditing and by The Times as 'a worldwide authority on corporate governance', in 2008 Andrew received The Institute of Internal Auditors' (UK) Distinguished Service Award. Just appointed Special Advisor to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee for their Inquiry into market concentration of the auditing profession. Andrew's Corporate Governance Handbook (4th ed., 2008, Tottel, ISBN 978-1-84766-053-4), Internal Auditor's Handbook (2nd ed., 2009, ISBN 9781405735674) and The Operational Auditing Handbook - Auditing Business & I.T. Processes (2nd ed., 2010, Wiley, ISBN 0470744766) are standard guides. Andrew has been a non-executive director of a FTSE250 financial institution, a well known mutual, small software companies, an NHS acute hospital trust and a well known charity – usually having chaired their audit committees. He was Dean of what is now the leading Cass Business School where he is professor emeritus. Currently he is a professor at London South Bank University.
Russell Cockburn, B.Sc.(Hons) FFTA. An independent taxation consultant, author and lecturer has presented tax seminars and in-house courses for Quorum Training Limited for 20 years. He is an experienced presenter for a number of professional training organisations on a variety of UK taxation topics throughout the UK
Formerly an Inspector of Taxes with a range of tax experience in HMRC he joined the wider tax/accountancy profession in 1987 as a corporate tax manager for a medium sized firm of chartered accountants going on to head up the business tax department of a small firm of chartered accountants.
In 1989 Russell established his own specialist taxation consultancy practice. He now heads up Bluebell House Consultants LLP a tax consultancy and training partnership based in Cumbria specialising in personal and business tax consultancy services to a wide range of clients throughout the UK.
Russell has lectured all over the UK on tax as well as in diverse locations as far as afield as Mauritius and Aberdeen, Belfast Nairobi and Truro! He offers tax consultancy services to individuals and businesses and other professional advisers as well as providing tax training services for small or large groups. He has presented papers at tax conferences and seminars across the country. Russell also regularly presents tax courses and seminars on a wide variety of topics for a number of training organisations and professional bodies.
Russell also writes on tax matters for a number of well known publications, is regular Corporation Tax correspondent for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and is also author of several booklets on taxation matters. In 2002 Russell published his first book on Tax, The Annual Tax Guide for company secretaries for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and in 2011 will publish a Tax Guide for the small business.
Sue Cullen is a solicitor specialising in information law and director of Amberhawk Training Limited, which she founded with Dr Chris Pounder in August 2008. She was for over seven years a member of the Information Law Team at Pinsent Masons LLP, providing training and advice principally on data protection and freedom of information, but also on human rights and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the Re-use of Public Sector Information. She regularly contributed case reports to the Encyclopaedia of Data Protection and was Data Protection Officer to Pinsent Masons. She is an accredited trainer for the ISEB qualifications in data protection, FOI and IT Law, and as well as delivering training and advice to clients she speaks and writes on current information law topics.
Claire Dean, BSc FCA. Claire is an instructor and consultant specialising in IFRS, UK GAAP and finance training. Claire previously worked within Ernst & Young's Financial Reporting Advisory team in London as a Senior Manager. In this role she provided technical advice in all aspects of UK GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to clients of E&Y, including working on IFRS conversions. Claire also delivers financial training to the Analysts at many of the large investment banks, runs finance courses for non financial managers and teaches the professional chartered accountancy examinations.
Steve Giles qualified with Deloitte & Touche in 1983. From 1990 he specialised in special projects & forensics (including headline cases such as Polly Peck & BCCI), working on a variety of governance, risk management, fraud assignments both in the UK and abroad. Steve left Deloittes in 1997 and since then has built up a track record of success on an independent basis in helping executives, through risk-based techniques, to find solutions to a variety of unusual business problems. In doing so, he has often worked with internal audit departments and has been Head of Internal Audit, on an interim basis, for two large clients
Steve has developed extensive training expertise and he lectures frequently on his specialist topics in the UK and around the world.
Mike Griffiths Writer and Lecturer on Commercial Law. Formerly Deputy Head, School of Legal Studies University of Wolverhampton.Co-editor of Loose on Liquidators, Wisgard, Griffiths and Doyle on Company Voluntary Arrangements, and Loose on the Company Director, contributor to Gore-Browne on Companies, Jordans Company Administration and Governance and Charlesworth's Business Law, founding editor of the Journal of Insolvency Law and Practice, author of Insolvency of Individuals and Partnerships and A Practical Guide to the Memorandum and Articles, co-author of The Insolvency Act 1985, The 1985 Table A, Company Law, The Companies Act 1985 - A Guide for Lawyers, Accountants and Secretaries, and The 1986 Company and Insolvency Legislation.
Morris Grossfeld Bank trainer and corporate treasury consultant, Former Editor in Chief, Global Treasury News and Chairman of The Society of International Treasurers.
Dr Peter Groves is a solicitor with a firm in the City of London. He was with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Head of Commercial Law at the CBI before going into private practice. He has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of intellectual property and information technology law: his books include Copyright and Designs Law, Intellectual Property in the Internal Market, Motor Law Guide to the Block Exemption, and Motor Trade Law and he was the general editor of The Business Client Handbook. He has appeared on television and radio talking about these subjects, and is the author of many articles in the legal, trade and national press, and his own blogs. His next book is a dictionary of intellectual property law, which will be published in February 2011. His practice focuses on trade marks and copyright law, computer contracts, and dealing with both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters. Specialist areas of interest include intellectual property as security for lending, IP aspects of due diligence investigations, and the impact of the Internet on intellectual property laws. Peter has particular experience of how these matters affect the motor industry.
Andy Hamer, LLB, ACIS. Partner, The Mentor Partnership. Author of the ICSA Meetings and Minutes Handbook.
Barry Hampson FCA, FRSA is a chartered accountant specialising in work with Housing Associations. Previously a Senior Manager in the Social Housing Team of Mazars LLP Chartered Accountants, Barry set up his own practice in 1988 to serve the sector; since then he has, in addition, built a substantial private client portfolio. Occasionally, for some larger and more complex assignments, he works in association with the Housing and Public Sector Consultancy of Savills. Over the years he has held a number of interim appointments as Chief Executive or Finance Director to several housing organisations, and has also had experience as a Board member with a number of organisations.
Alison Hennell Qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, working as an audit manager in London and Sydney. She moved into training several years ago specialising in financial reporting, accounting, auditing and assurance. She has written several finance related publications including co-authoring a book on Shareholder Value published by the Financial Times, and several financial management best practice guidelines for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Sue Hibberd Chartered Insurance Practitioner, Professional Trainer.
Neil Holden Consultant & Trainer, Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and an affiliated member of the Institute of Management Consultancy.
Sharon Housden is a Legal Executive with 15 years experience of working in debt recovery and enforcement. She has assisted with the writing of several courses on debt recovery and enforcement.
Nick Lawrence spent several years with HM Customs & Excise in the UK, specialising in partial exemption, before joining a medium sized accountancy firm in 1988 where he advised on all aspects of VAT and was latterly chairman of the national VAT committee. In January 1995, he started his own business, working from home. Nick has provided regular consultancy and training services to a wide range of clients in the UK and abroad. He has particular expertise in partial exemption, land and property, charities and social housing. Nick has also lectured extensively on VAT issues around the world and assignments have included the USA, Canada, Vietnam, Nepal, Sweden, Hungary and the Netherlands, as well as the UK. Nick was also the author of two books on VAT and served on the Editorial Board of the International VAT Monitor published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation based in Amsterdam. Nick has an honours degree in Spanish with Portuguese from the University of Birmingham (2:1) and also has a working knowledge of French.
Mark Levitt, FCA, CTA, Tax Partner, Hazlems Fenton.
Timothy Lloyd has extensive experience of managing in-house tax teams. After qualifying as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, and a period of advisory services with Chiltern Financial Services, Timothy joined the then industrial arm of RTZ to cover all taxes, including Corporation Tax, VAT, PAYE & Customs Duties. Following a spell as head of indirect taxes at British Aerospace, he joined HM Customs & Excise. His role there was to help them develop their tax avoidance countermeasures, resulting in him either instigating or being directly involved in a number of very high profile cases. Leaving HMC&E, he joined Woolworths Group plc to set up and then head the in-house tax function following the Group's demerger from Kingfisher plc. He is now using his extensive experience of all taxes for project and consultancy work.
Mike Lowe, BSc. Tax Partner, International Tax Services, Ernst & Young.
Paul Martin trained with Price Waterhouse between 1985 and 1988 and since then has been delivering tax courses first of all to students sitting ATT and CTA exams and than for CPD purposes. In 2005 he took up his current position as training manager at Baker Tilly.
Pat Masters has extensive experience of contracting, procurement and service reviews. She has managed and/or reviewed services such as housing management, building repairs and maintenance. She has also devised and implemented major service improvement programmes, and operated as both commissioner and provider of services. Pat is also an experienced trainer in the areas of value for money and efficiency reviews, performance and change management.
Pat has experience of undertaking reviews for housing associations as part of their preparation for inspection and has worked for a London based associations as an Interim Procurement Manager overseeing the procurement arrangements for Decent Homes contracts and repairs and maintenance services.
Pat is an Associate at the housing association sector consultancy Campbell Tickell.
Anne Mathieson started life in the Scottish office of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co where she qualified as a chartered accountant and tax advisor. She gained experience of audit, accounting and consultancy in a wide range of commercial environments before specialising in taxation of corporations and their key staff.
After nine years, Anne moved south and spent a short period with Sheen Stickland & Co. A career in business education followed at Farnborough College of Technology (lecturing tax and accountancy and latterly in management) where she stayed for twenty years culminating in an appointment as Head of School of Management in Finance. Throughout this time, Anne had been in spare time practice specialising in accounting and taxation services to small business and personal taxation. Training had also been provided to professionals and others on a wide range of accounting and tax subject areas.
Having left the education sector Anne still enjoys carrying out training. Her current full time work covers practice in taxation and accounting for individuals, small businesses and other practices, both on a consultancy and a practical level.
Paul Meadows ASIP CFA Institute. Fifteen years experience on the Buyside of the Market, working in both Institutional and High Net Worth Portfolio Management (including Royal Insurance Asset Management and Lloyds Private Banking). Key roles undertaken ranged from managing the UK Equity component of a larger Portfolio on behalf of a Scandinavian Insurer through to Heading up the Global Research effort in London for a Bermudan-domiciled Private Bank.
Dr John Mitchell is Managing Director of LHS Business Control which he set up in 1989 to specialise in the corporate governance area. He is an experienced trainer and has been involved in internal audit for more than twenty years having previously been deputy chief internal auditor at British Telecom and computer audit manager at British Gas. John is a recognised authority on computer systems, corporate governance and risk management. He has been a proponent of control self assessment for many years and has experience of quality related initiatives and anti-crime work. He has been an expert witness in a number of computer related fraud cases. His doctorate from City University, London, was awarded for research into the use of risk management techniques for strategic planning purposes. He has previously held editorial positions for a number of IT related magazines. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a regular IT expert witness within the English legal system.
Deborah Morton-Dare Independent Lecturer and Consultant.
Lakshmi Narain is the current Vice-Chairman of the Property Taxes Sub-committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and a Council member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioner Group. Lakshmi is an editorial Board member of the Tax Journal, the editor of two tax annual texts: one on property tax issues and the other on SDLT and is a regular speaker at training events for tax professionals. After graduating in Applied Physics, Lakshmi trained as a Chartered Accountant and then pursued a career that straddled the profession and Academia. During that period he obtained an Msc in Accounting and Finance and an LLM in Taxation. In his current role within the National Tax function, Lakshmi provides technical support for the tax practice.
Jenny Nemko, M.A., L.G.S.M., dip. Performance Business Coaching.
Jenny works with both businesses and academic institutions, helping people to get their message across in a clear succinct way.
In the business world, Jenny works with senior management, financial and legal specialists and administrative staff for media, presentation and communications skills training. In the academic world, she works at University College London, the London Business School and Imperial College delivering courses on speech and pronunciation, performance business coaching, lecturing, presentation and communications skills.
Jenny has written a number of books is a regular contributor to BBC Radio World Service and for BBC Radio 2 and 4.
Paul Neville has 25 years' experience working in Management and Leadership Development for a number of blue chip, public sector and rapidly growing organisations. These include Unilever, BBC, UK Athletics, JCDecaux, Swiss Re, The Law Society, Ruffer, JOHIM, SC Johnson, Mondrian, Unanimis and Budweiser.
Working at Board level, Paul has delivered a significant number of programmes primarily aimed at reshaping management and leadership capability. Paul's programmes typically incorporate management training, coaching and wider behavioural based interventions combined with development of the systems and processes required to sustain change.
Paul is also an international Executive Coach, bringing his experience and qualifications with the AoEC to bear in support of individual development.
Paul is a Director at t-three, a leading people development business operating in the UK, continental Europe and the US.
Prof Chris Nobes is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London. Previously he has taught in the Universities of Reading, Exeter and Strathclyde. He has held temporary posts at universities in San Diego, New York, Sydney, Hobart and Auckland. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Venice, Nyenrode (Netherlands) and Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and is now a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management. He is author or co-author of fourteen books, including The Economics of Taxation (latest edition, 2007), An International Introduction to Financial Accounting (2007), Comparative International Accounting (2008), Pocket Accounting (fourth edition, 2001), International Guide to Interpreting Company Accounts (second edition, 1999), and The Convergence Handbook (2000). He was a member of the Accounting Standards Committee of the UK and Ireland from 1987 to 1990, and one of the two UK representatives on the Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee from 1993 to 2001. He is now a member of the ICAEW Financial Reporting Committee and is vice-chairman of the accounting working group of the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens, a body which advises the EC Commission.
Tim Palmer is one of the UK's best known and popular tax presenters. He lectures frequently all over the UK on a wide variety of taxation subjects. He has been presenting such tax lectures for 25 years now!
He also writes regular magazine articles for the leading taxation publications.
Alongside his lecturing, Tim also provides tax consultancy services and specialist tax advice.
Tim is also the Tax Technical Director of CIS Tax Advice Ltd, providing tax support to the Construction Industry, for contractors and subcontractors alike.
Previously, Tim was a senior Tax Manager with Howarth Clark Whitehill LLP, advising on all areas of tax and NIC for the firm to their clients. He was also a member of the tax department of P&O where he specialised in Corporation Tax and the Construction Industry.
Farrukh Raza previously worked for the Islamic Bank of Britain where he played a key role in the development & growth of the bank earning him a highly trusted profile in the community and the industry alike. He has also played a pivotal role in the development & launch of Salaam Insurance as UK's first Islamic insurance company. He has been directly involved in designing & delivering professional training programmes to the management, staff and 3rd party providers of several financial institutions across Europe. He is well recognised as a leading figure of Islamic financial industry within the UK, European and international markets. He is a PhD candidate at Durham University and has a MBA in strategic management. He is a member of Chartered Institute of Marketing, Islamic Finance Experts Group (UK), Paris Europlace Commission for Islamic Finance (France), Business & Economics Committee of Muslim Council of Britain and Mosaic Network of Prince's Trust. He is a visiting lecturer on Islamic finance at several reputed universities and a popular speaker at international conferences on Islamic finance. Farrukh founded the Islamic Finance consultancy IFAAS in July 2007.
Paul Rogerson has worked in corporate tax since 1986, specialising in the energy sector from that time. He has a wide breadth of experience, gained, in part, from secondment to companies and his role in coordinating international tax for a number of clients.
Gwen Ryder has been a VAT and customs duty specialist and lecturer for her entire career. She worked in H M Customs (now HM Revenue and Customs) for 9 years before joining the “Big 5". She subsequently became the VAT and Customs Partner in a top 20 firm, and then formed her own consultancy practice in 2003. Gwen is an Associate of, and former examiner for, the Institute of Indirect Tax, and a member of the Customs Practitioners Group and The VAT Practitioners Group. Gwen is the original author of the Cross Border Goods, and International Services, sections of the CCH publication, 'VAT Planning' and the customs duties section of the CCH publication, The Indirect Tax Guide.
Gwen advises a wide range of clients on all matters of VAT and Customs duty as it applies in the UK and internationally. She also lectures extensively on these subjects, and is currently acting head of VAT in a top 10 firm of accountants.
Ann Strangwood is a finance director, Rosebery Housing Group, which includes a predominantly general needs housing association, a special needs housing association and a joint venture maintenance company. Previously, she has headed the internal audit department of Orbit Housing Association and worked at a senior level in the accountancy profession, where she provided advisory services to fifty housing associations.
Derek Taylor worked in the Midland Bank Treasury as an assistant director in charge of interbank trading in major currencies, specialising in £/$, the largest traded currency in the bank. He was involved in the development of their Asian and Pacific desk with responsibility for $/Yen. He has also worked for Lehman Brothers and was involved in the setting up and management of cross currency broking desks at two of London's money brokers (Tullett and Tokyo plc and Harlow Butler plc).
Rose Tierney Tax Consultant
Sue Turner, BSc, ACA. Sue qualified as a chartered accountant with a big five firm. Since specialising in management development, Sue has designed and delivered successful interactive learning programmes for clients including Ernst & Young, Safeway and Alliance & Leicester. Her special area of interest within management development is maximising the transfer of learning to the workplace. Sue is a Consultant with Finance into Focus.
Andrew Watters is Director of Contentious Tax with City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP. He advises both international corporate groups and high net worth individuals. He represents clients faced with serious enquiries from HMRC or who wish to disclose a liability. The objective is to reach an agreed resolution but, where appropriate, litigation may be required. Increasingly he is asked to advise on 'cooperative compliance' issues to minimise the likelihood of such enquiries starting or to mitigate any potential penalty position. Prior to entering private practice, Andrew worked as a senior investigator in the HMRC specialist unit dealing with high profile cases of suspected tax avoidance and evasion.He has contributed to the OECD HNWI Project leading to a Council Directive and to HMRC's consultations on both cross border avoidance and the introduction of thr Senior Accounting Officer legislation.
Adrian Watts runs his own practice, dealing with commercial and employment issues particularly focussed on the motor sector. He has worked at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders at the sharp end of formulation and drafting of domestic and European legislation on consumer and competition issues, and then spent many years as in-house counsel for a major vehicle manufacturer.
Graham Westwood has vast training and consultancy experience in all dimensions of the public and private sectors; and has held positions in education, local government and the public utilities. He has been a financial accountant, financial planner and has spent a substantial amount of time as an Audit Manager in the Water Industry. He has designed audit software and has a particular interest in control evaluation techniques.
Jacqueline Williams is an independent lecturer and consultant. She holds both law and accounting qualifications and is an associate of the Compliance Institute. She has held posts in audit and as a compliance manager, most recently with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and throughout has been heavily involved in training
She started her career in the legal department of the Engineering Industry Training board before joining the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as its legal adviser, working particularly on consumer law issues in the motor industry.
She has written and co-authored a number of books including Product Liability Casebook (Lloyds of London Press), Consumer Law for the Motor Trade – now in its 5th edition (Tottel Publishing), Motor Trade Law (Institute of the Motor Industry), and Anti-Counterfeiting Law & Practice (Jordans).
Anthea has been developing and delivering consumer law training for many years working with manufacturers, importers and retailers.
Ian Yonge Solicitor and trainer.
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